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Services

  1. Benefits calculators

    Find out what benefits you could get, how much you could get and how to claim

  2. Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

    Personal Independence Payment (PIP) replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - how and when to claim, rates, eligibility

  3. Apply for or renew a Blue Badge

    Apply for or renew a Blue Badge, amend or cancel a saved application, track your application

  4. Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

    Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) money if you cannot work because of illness or disability - rates, eligibility, apply, assessment

  5. Carer's Allowance

    Apply for Carer's Allowance - money to help you look after someone who needs to be cared for. Apply online or use form DS700

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Guidance and regulation

  1. The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) toolkit
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Work and Pensions
  2. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment guide for assessment providers
    • Guidance
    • Department for Work and Pensions
  3. Disability Confident: how to sign up to the employer scheme
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Work and Pensions
  4. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) handbook
    • Guidance
    • Department for Work and Pensions
  5. What Personal Independence Payment (PIP) means for carers
    • Guidance
    • Department for Work and Pensions
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News and communications

Press release

£40 million personalised support package for long-term unemployed disabled people launched

Department for Work and Pensions

  1. Career Fair for Persons with Disabilities: speech by Jemima Gordon-Duff
    • Department for International Development and Foreign & Commonwealth Office
    • Speech
  2. Office for Disability Issues announces its new regional stakeholder network
    • Office for Disability Issues
    • News story
  3. Disability champions set to open industry doors
    • Department for Work and Pensions and Office for Disability Issues
    • Press release
  4. Seeking disability sector champions for 2019
    • Office for Disability Issues
    • News story
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Research and statistics

  1. Everybody active, every day: framework for physical activity
    • Public Health England
    • Research
  2. Patient Education / Self Management Programmes for People with Long Term Conditions 2017/18
    • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
    • Official statistics
  3. Disability Confident: survey of participating employers
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Research
  4. Access to Work research review
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Research
  5. People with Learning Disabilities in England 2015
    • Public Health England
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill: equality analysis
    • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Impact assessment
  2. Global Disability Summit - Charter for Change
    • Department for International Development
    • Policy paper
  3. Carers action plan 2018 to 2020
    • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Education, Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health and Social Care, Government Equalities Office , and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
    • Policy paper
  4. Government response to the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) Programme 2nd annual report
    • Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England
    • Policy paper
  5. Think Autism strategy: governance refresh 2018
    • Department of Health and Social Care
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme: annual review 2017 to 2018
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Corporate report
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Organisations

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